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How great the gulf between Wordsworth and George Herbert! Herbert "offering at heaven, growing and groaning thither," and Wordsworth, for whom the gentle regret of the lines, Me this unchartered freedom tires, I feel the weight of chance desires, forms his most characteristic expression of the self-judgment of the solitary soul.
He had been seated only a few moments when his attention was attracted by a small automobile bouncing over the deep- rutted road, a few yards to the south of the mill. When it got nearly opposite, one of the rear tires, with a loud report, blew out, and it came to a sudden stop.
Everybody's got their own affairs to attend to." "Oh yes! I know," said Anne. "It's never anybody's business to try to prevent such things, but it'll be everybody's business to throw stones at the girl very soon, if the man tires of her." "I don't know about preventing," returned Dick; "she seemed pretty set on him herself. I think myself it's a pity.
Davies, now off, and again on the running board when needed, accompanied the car in its jerky and erratic progress, tossing robes and coats under the tires, calling instructions to Drexel similarly occupied on the other side, and warning Miss Drexel out of the way.
He rolled the tattered tires out into the sunlight, let out the air and yanked them from their rims. "Come on here and help, and I'll patch up your old tires so you c'n go on," he offered good-naturedly, in spite of the things the woman had said to him. "The tire don't live that Casey can't patch if it comes to a showdown."
The hunters had come in with the spoils of a successful chase; the wigwam tires are flickering and crackling, sending up their light columns of thin blue smoke among the trees; and now a goodly portion of venison is roasting on the forked sticks before the fires. Each lodge has its own cooking utensils.
He squinted into the sunshine and straightway squared himself for business. This was a two-ton truck fitted for camping. A tall, lean man whose overalls hung wide from his suspenders and did not seem to touch his person anywhere, climbed out and stood looking at the bare rims of two wheels, as if he had at that moment discovered them. "Thinkin' about the price uh tires, stranger?"
"Come, my darling, let us speak no more about it," said Emilie, interrupting her friend, "for it tires me to death." After a few trifling remarks the baroness left. "How is this, monsieur?" cried Madame B , opening the door of the closet where the baron was frozen with cold, for this incident took place in winter; "how is this?
This is the comedy that never tires. Let the elder who cannot understand its charm beware how he tries to put a more intelligible form of delight in the place of it; for, if not, he will find that children also have a manner of substitution, and that they will put half-hearted laughter in the place of their natural impetuous clamours.
No one could say that her manners were anything but absolutely simple, yet the very simplicity is so obviously maintained as a sort of gymnastic effort that it tires us only to study it. Then here is a viscount, graceful, well-set, easy in his pose, talking with a deep voice, and lisping to the faintest degree.
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